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A mid‑August cumulative update for Windows 11 — KB5063878 (OS Build 26100.4946), released on August 12, 2025 — is being linked by multiple independent community tests and tech outlets to a storage regression that can render some SSDs inaccessible after sustained, large sequential writes, with affected drives reportedly disappearing from the OS and, in some cases, exposing file corruption and unreadable SMART data. Background / Overview Microsoft released KB5063878 on August 12, 2025 as the...

Microsoft’s Copilot 3D brings single‑click 2D→3D conversion to the browser: upload a clean JPG or PNG, wait seconds, and download a textured GLB that’s ready for preview, prototyping, or downstream editing. Background / Overview Copilot 3D is an experimental feature surfaced inside Copilot Labs that converts a single flat image into a textured 3D model (exported as a GLB file) with a few clicks. The flow is deliberately simple — sign in, open Labs, choose Copilot 3D, upload a PNG or JPG...

Last week’s headlines brought a stark reminder that identity is the new battlefield: a major US credit union disclosed a breach that exposed entire customer identity kits, researchers revealed Android malware weaponizing NFC to enable real-time payment fraud, UK regulators tightened the rules on facial recognition in fintech, and Microsoft’s August Patch Tuesday closed a dangerous Kerberos privilege-escalation hole — together these events expose converging risks for banks, fintechs, and...

Microsoft has flipped a switch that changes how the company—and millions of its customers—will think about productivity, development, and cloud AI: OpenAI’s newly announced GPT‑5 family is being rolled out across Microsoft’s Copilot portfolio, GitHub, Visual Studio, and Azure AI Foundry in what the company describes as an ecosystem‑wide, day‑one deployment rather than a piecemeal model update. o GPT‑5 is not a simple model swap. The company has adopted a multi‑variant model family and an...

Microsoft quietly confirmed that after the Windows 10 Anniversary Update (version 1607) it planned two more major feature updates for 2017 — internally codenamed Redstone 2 and Redstone 3 — setting a cadence that would shape Windows 10’s “Windows as a Service” era and push new features through the Windows Insider Program before broad rollout. Background In mid‑2016 Microsoft shipped the Windows 10 Anniversary Update (Windows 10, version 1607) and simultaneously published guidance for IT...

Microsoft’s August cumulative for Windows 11 (KB5063878, OS Build 26100.4946) has been tied in independent community testing and aggregation threads to a serious storage regression that can render certain NVMe SSDs inaccessible during large, sustained write operations — and administrators also faced a separate enterprise installation regression (error 0x80240069) that disrupted WSUS/SCCM rollouts. r on August 12, 2025 as a combined servicing stack and cumulative update for Windows 11 version...

Microsoft has quietly changed how the Microsoft Store manages app updates: the once-simple toggle to permanently disable automatic app updates in the Store UI is being removed for many consumer devices, replaced with a time-limited pause option (commonly between one and five weeks) after which automatic updates resume. years the Microsoft Store included a straightforward setting — Update apps automatically — that let users stop Store apps from downloading and installing new versions in the...

Microsoft has announced that Windows PowerShell 2.0 will be removed from Windows starting in August 2025 for Windows 11, version 24H2 and in September 2025 for Windows Server 2025 — a final step in a deprecation that began in 2017 and a change already visible in Windows Insider builds this summer. (support.microsoft.com, bleepingcomputer.com) Background Windows PowerShell 2.0 shipped as the Windows-built PowerShell experience in Windows 7 and became an optional, side‑by‑side compatibility...

Microsoft’s day‑one switch to OpenAI’s GPT‑5 across Copilot, Microsoft 365, GitHub, Visual Studio, and Azure AI Foundry represents the most comprehensive AI product overhaul in the company’s history — a coordinated, ecosystem‑wide move that folds a new family of reasoning models into the fabric of everyday productivity and developer workflows while raising immediate questions about trust, governance, and long‑term cost. Background Microsoft’s integration of GPT‑5 is not a single model swap...

Mozilla is changing how Private Browsing handles downloaded files: instead of silently removing certain files when a private window closes, Firefox Nightly is now prompting users and offering a new setting to keep or delete downloads, a behavior expected to land in Firefox 143 if the experiment proceeds as reported. Background For years Firefox’s Private Browsing mode has preserved the basic promise of privacy by clearing session traces — cookies, history, and certain cached data — after...

A California resident has filed suit seeking to force Microsoft to continue issuing free security updates for Windows 10 after the company’s scheduled October 14, 2025 end‑of‑support date, arguing the shutdown amounts to forced obsolescence that steers users into buying Windows 11–capable hardware and Microsoft’s AI‑centric ecosystem. (theregister.com, courthousenews.com) Background Microsoft set a firm deadline: Windows 10 mainstream support ends on October 14, 2025, after which consumer...

The McDuffie Progress lists a community event called Exploring Windows, but the event page could not be retrieved directly; the available record indicates the listing exists but was inaccessible at the time of research, so this feature combines a verified note about the McDuffie Progress listing with a grounded, evidence-based exploration of what an event titled “Exploring Windows” typically offers, why it matters to local users, and the technical topics such a program should cover...

Microsoft has quietly rolled out a practical — if temporary — lifeline for Windows 10 users as the operating system heads to its scheduled end of support: a consumer-friendly Extended Security Updates (ESU) path, an in-place “Enroll” experience via Windows Update, and multiple low-friction enrollment options (including a one-time $30 fee that can cover multiple devices). The move gives millions of users additional time to plan a safe migration to Windows 11 or new hardware, but it is not a...

Microsoft's late-summer move to soften the blow of Windows 10's end-of-support is a rare mix of relief and a reminder: the clock is still running. The company has rolled out a consumer-focused Extended Security Updates (ESU) program that gives many Windows 10 users a one-year security lifeline — and a trio of enrollment routes that include a free path — while simultaneously reinforcing the message that the long-term solution is migration to Windows 11 or a modern cloud PC. This article...

Microsoft has given Windows 10 users a one-year safety net — a broadly accessible Extended Security Updates (ESU) program that keeps crucial security patches flowing after the official end-of-support date, but the offer comes with strings attached and hard choices ahead for millions of PC owners. d of its mainstream lifecycle on October 14, 2025, meaning Microsoft stops delivering routine quality and security updates to Home and Pro editions through the standard update channel on that date...

Microsoft’s August cumulative for Windows 11 — KB5063878 (OS Build 26100.4946) — has been linked by independent testers and enthusiast communities to a reproducible and severe storage fault: under sustained large sequential writes (reports center around the 50 GB range), certain NVMe SSDs—and a small number of HDDs—can become completely unresponsive, disappear from the operating system, and present unreadable SMART data, sometimes resulting in file-system corruption and permanent data loss...

Ricoh Asia Pacific’s internal push to make its workforce “future-ready” — anchored by a week-long, hands-on AI upskilling sprint co-sponsored by Microsoft and Talogy — signals a new phase in how hardware-first vendors are repositioning themselves as platform and services companies that sell outcomes, not just devices. The program, billed as AI Learning Week and running 18–22 August 2025, brings more than a thousand employees across Ricoh’s Asia Pacific operations into role-based labs...

Microsoft’s August cumulative update for Windows Server 2019, KB5063877 (released August 12, 2025), finally closes out a high‑visibility clustering regression introduced by the July rollout: a Cluster Service failure that caused repeated service restarts, node quarantines and virtual machine reboots in environments using BitLocker‑protected Cluster Shared Volumes (CSV). Administrators can deploy the fix through standard channels after ensuring the required servicing‑stack prerequisite is...

Ricoh Asia Pacific has launched a coordinated, region-wide push to make its workforce “future-ready” by embedding AI fluency, Microsoft Copilot adoption, and custom AI agents into everyday operations — a program that crystallizes how hardware and services vendors are pivoting from product sales to workforce transformation. Background Ricoh’s announcement centers on AI Learning Week, a five-day, internal upskilling initiative running 18–22 August 2025 that brings together more than a thousand...

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